Eco-environmental stress refers to the pressure borne by the environment in sustaining the pre-existing non-industrialized state and/or in counteracting adverse impacts caused by natural and human factors. The present article introduces the concept, research progress, and method for assessing eco-environmental stress. An eco-environmental stress index (ESI) is established to assess the eco-envi...

Eco-colonies are new grammar systems with very simple grammars called agents placed in a common dynamic environment. Every agent generates its own finite language, all agents cooperate on the shared environment. The environment is developing not only by the action of agents, but also using its own developmental rules. The generative power of eco-colonies was discussed in several papers, ecocolo...

extended abstract 1. introduction human life is highly dependent on the environment and the services that are provided by the environment. environmental quality is a set of properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalized or local, as they may also impinge on human beings and other organisms. it is a measure of the condition of an environment relative to the requirements of...

of Alberta) for their valuable conceptual and editorial input. Abbreviations: AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome BAU business as usual EF ecological footprint EFA eclogical footprint analysis EKCs Environmental Kuznets Curves GDP gross domestic product 3 HEADLAMP Linkage Methods for Environment and Health Analysis, HEADLAMP Project HIV human immunodeficiency virus IA integrated assessment ...

This paper traces the environmental and economic effects of a “Table field Fish pond” (TFFP) land use scheme in Lijin County in the Yellow River Delta of China with reference to the optimization of ecological-productive structures resulting from a land use / land cover change (LUCC) approach. “Table fieldFish pond” is an effective reconstructed land use system and eco-agricultural pattern to ch...

The realization in the last century that observed human behavior often deviates from the predictions of traditional axiomatic theories of rationality (henceforth “TATs”), e.g. [6],[8], has led to a revival of the philosophical problem of developing a credible philosophical theory of rationality. In particular, the concept of ecological rationality (“ECO”) has been developed as a competitor to T...